11-09-2016, 08:18 PM
(11-09-2016, 08:10 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:(11-09-2016, 08:05 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(11-09-2016, 07:52 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:(11-09-2016, 07:23 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Oh, by the way -- I expect America to become a grimmer, drearier, and more joyless place for those not already rich. That is how plutocracy works.
So basically nothing will change.
Not quite. It will accelerate.
I expect the Republican Party and the economic elites behind it to do everything possible to maintain power and leave any ideological alternative, including a humanistic liberalism, blocked out of relevance indefinitely.
In the end the pathology makes a socialist insurrection possible in the event of a crop failure (like global warming that isn't happening), an economic meltdown, or a war for profits going badly
One Yuge problem with that theory bro. The GOP elites hate Trump and Trump's base. They will be absorbed by the Democrats most likely because the party's have switched coats again. I would have thought you'd have noticed that she sounded like the Goldwater girl she always was and he sounds like a Jack Kennedy Democrat.
Trump would combine Hitler and Lincoln in the same sentence if he could get away with it.
Donald Trump will quickly turn upon the 'deplorable' people that voted him. He no longer needs them. He will suck up to the 'Establishment' types who have money and media that the common man do not have. After all it is easier to force low wages and brutal management upon working people than it is to deliver those wages.
It never fails. The GOP elites are loyal only to lucre.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.